Looking to expand the storage of your computer? CNET's top picks of the best external hard drives and SSDs are worth your cash. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's ...

A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that resides outside the computer's case, typically connecting via USB or eSATA. A USB flash drive is also external storage. See portable drive and USB drive.

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External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka ... as well as store any data that you don’t need on your computer’s fast internal storage. They’re also extremely handy for transporting data between ...

The best external hard drive boosts your device's storage space while delivering faster read/write speeds. We've run the benchmarks, and these are my top recommendations. Through extensive testing ...

Losing all your data because your computer came down with a nasty virus or got fried in an electrical storm can be inconvenient at best, devastating at worse. Portable hard drives and cloud storage ...

This ensures that the external storage device can run at its optimum speed while ensuring that it doesn’t consume power or add additional heat to the host computer from its bank of SSDs.

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Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage has never been cheaper. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right external hard drive. Since 2004, I have worked on ...